Hard link to symbolic link hack

Hard link to symbolic link hack

[Peter Fedorow]

Hi,
I need to install some software who's installer generates hard links to 
  and NFS server which does not support them.

What changes need to be made to nfs_proc_link to map the hard links to 
symlinks?

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static int
nfs_proc_link(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir, struct qstr *name)
{
	struct nfs_linkargs	arg = { NFS_FH(inode), NFS_FH(dir),
					name->name, name->len };
	int			status;

	dprintk("NFS call  link %s\n", name->name);
	status = rpc_call(NFS_CLIENT(inode), NFSPROC_LINK, &arg, NULL, 0);
	dprintk("NFS reply link: %d\n", status);
	return status;
}

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static int
nfs_proc_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct qstr *name, struct qstr *path,
		 struct iattr *sattr, struct nfs_fh *fhandle,
		 struct nfs_fattr *fattr)
{
	struct nfs_symlinkargs	arg = { NFS_FH(dir), name->name, name->len,
					path->name, path->len, sattr };
	int			status;

	dprintk("NFS call  symlink %s -> %s\n", name->name, path->name);
	fattr->valid = 0;
	status = rpc_call(NFS_CLIENT(dir), NFSPROC_SYMLINK, &arg, NULL, 0);
	dprintk("NFS reply symlink: %d\n", status);
	return status;
}



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